Joshua Rush Biography

Joshua Rush (born ) is an American actor. Rush began his career as a child actor playing roles such as Turner in the 2012 film Parental Guidance, and young versions of the characters Sylar and Chuck Bartowski on the television series Heroes and Chuck, respectively. Since 2016 he has voiced Bunga on the Disney Junior television series The Lion Guard, and since 2017 he has starred as Cyrus Goodman on the Disney Channel television series Andi Mack.

Career

Rush was ten months old when he first appeared in a local television special, and then several ads and catalogs shortly thereafter. By age 2, he had the ability to identify cars by logo and body style, and was featured on the KHOU morning news in a segment on how to raise "smart kids."

Before working on Heroes, Rush appeared on Private Practice. His film credits include Blue Boy, The Journal, and Mindsight, and he played Carlos in the Baby Jamz: Daily Lessons and Jamz Sessions children's video with Solange Knowles. He has also acted in commercials for Space Center Houston and Safeco Insurance, and a video e-card for americangreetings.com. In 2009, Rush appeared on The Jay Leno Show as the "Super Duper Nanny Son." The same year he also appeared on Medium as Tanner Campbel, the boy in the banana costume, and on Criminal Minds as Ronny Downey.

Rush's first major television role came in 2009 when he was cast on Heroes. He played Zachary Quinto's character, Sylar, at a young age. This recurring role was part of a major plot point in season three. After Heroes, Rush had minor roles on Parenthood, CSI: NY, and Special Agent Oso.

In 2010, Rush began portraying a young version of Zachary Levi"?s character Chuck Bartowski on Chuck. In this role, he worked with such actors as Scott Bakula and Linda Hamilton. Following his work on Chuck, Rush did ADR work on the Hallmark Channel movie "November Christmas", and commercials for McDonald's and GameStop.

In 2012, Rush appeared as Turner Simmons in the feature film Parental Guidance, which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Young Actor Age Ten and Under in a Feature Film. He also appeared as Jacob in the 2015 thriller film Emelie.

Rush currently voices Bunga on the Disney Junior series The Lion Guard, Toby in Netflix's The Adventures of Puss in Boots and Breehn on Cartoon Network's Clarence. He also plays Cyrus Goodman, the first gay main character on Disney Channel and one of the two best friends of the title character, on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack.

Personal life

Rush was born in Houston, Texas. His father is a marketing strategist and his mother is a corporate documentary producer.

Like his Andi Mack character Cyrus, Rush is Jewish. Rush, who has celebrated his own bar mitzvah, requested Andi Mack creator and executive producer Terri Minsky, who is also Jewish, to write a bar mitzvah scene for his character, which was featured in Season 2 Episode 13, "Cyrus' Bash-Mitzvah!".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Parental Guidance	Turner Simmons
2013	Saving Lincoln	Tad Lincoln
2013	Escape from Planet Earth	Young Shanker	Voice role
2014	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	Carl	Voice role
2014	Break Point	Barry
2015	Emelie	Jacob
2015	Sex, Death and Bowling	Eli McAllister

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Private Practice	Will	1 episode
2009-2010	Heroes	Little Sylar	Recurring role, 6 episodes
2009	Medium	Tanner Campbel/Boy in Banana Costume	2 episodes
2009	The Jay Leno Show	Super Duper Nanny Son	1 episode
2009	Criminal Minds	Ronny Downey	1 episode
2010	CSI: NY	Luke Garito	1 episode
2010	Chuck	Young Chuck	3 episodes
2011	Childrens Hospital	Seth	1 episode
2012	House	Ryan	1 episode
2012	Gravity Falls	Soldier Kid	1 episode
2014-2016	Clarence	Breehn	Recurring voice role, 15 episodes
2015	40's and Failing	Max	4 episodes
2015-2017	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Jeremy Birnbaum	Recurring voice role, 5 episodes
2015	The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar	Bunga	Television film
2015	Bones	Bradley	1 episode
2015-2018	The Adventures of Puss in Boots	Toby	Main voice role
2016	The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show	Wheels	1 episode
2016-present	The Lion Guard	Bunga	Main voice role
2017-present	Andi Mack	Cyrus Goodman	Main role